Celebrating Print Can Be Just As Glamourous as Those Moving Pictures 36764

If anyone is going to compare the Ellies to the Oscars without any nod at irony, it’s going to be Media Industry Newsletter EIC Steve Cohn, whose career depends on it. With all the boldface names in attendance, after all – Ellen DeGeneres opens the show with a pre-taped video; Kevin Bacon and Edie Falco will leap on stage to hand out awards to magazines who, undoubtedly, they’ve appeared in – how can one not jump to the immediate conclusion that Graydon Carter should be adding an exclusive soiree to his season?

All black tie, and while the 25 Ellie recipients (renditions of the late Alexander Cal-der’s Elephant stabile) will not get the fancy “goodie bags” (no tax problems here), there will, Kahan says, be an ASME after-party with “dessert, champagne, and a DJ.”

And thus, the ASME awards are either the new Oscars … or your cousin’s bar mitzvah. But at least they had goodie bags.